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Sabrina sounds interesting. I'll see if the library has it tomorrow.
I watched "The Shack": https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_shack/ Although I can see how Rotten Tomatoes did not like this, I'm with the people on this one. I thought it was enjoyable, a 6 or 7 out of 10.
The story is about a fictional near-death experience. The message was forgiveness. One part of the message that I disagreed with was that God seemed to know what someone would do before the person did it. They thought this was OK because God enjoyed watching us do it as if for the first time. If we are truly a source of freedom, He wouldn't be able to know what we were going to do although he could guess likely choices on our part. Basically, God knows everything that is knowable, but what we are going to do next is not knowable except probabilistically. It is nothing against his "omniscience" not to know something that is unknowable.
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I saw Sabrina, the Audrey Hepburn, Humphrey Bogart movie. It was at least an 8 out of 10 rating. Sabrina's father tells her not to reach for the moon and she tells him the moon is reaching for her.
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I saw Valerian and the City of the Thousand Planets today at the cinema. It's nonsense but it looks good, rather like The Fifth Element in style.
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Recently saw The Reluctant Saint on TCM, a story of St. Joseph of Cupertino (" the patron saint of both aviators and bad students.") which I enjoyed very much, but is not going to be everyone's cup of peppermint tea. It's in B&W and plods a bit, but has some noteworthy stars in lead roles including Ricardo Montalbán and Maximillian Schell. There is a Youtube version, which I watched also a day or two later, that is a bit stilted in its presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXxOLNRBdXw
Spoilers: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056403/
For those not inclined I'd rate it a 3 of 10; for those inclined an 8 of 10.
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor STATELY
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We watched "Table 19" last night. https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/table_19/
Rotten Tomatoes thought it was pretty rotten. I would agree. Score 3/10.
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I watched Boss Baby: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_boss_baby/
If you are seven years old and you are told by your parents you will have a new baby brother arriving shortly, this might be a good movie to watch.
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As you didn´t rate it, it seems that the film may be not so interesting to people who don´t fullfill the above conditions.
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I forgot to rate it and I can't seem to edit my posts anymore. I would give The Boss Baby a 5/10. It wasn't as bad as Table 19.
Last night I saw the eighth film in the Fast and Furious series "The Fate of the Furious". https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the...f_the_furious/ It got a reasonably good rating from Rotten Tomatoes, but I am more inclined to rate it higher--actually 10/10.
It made me wonder why I liked these movies so much. This is the best I can come up with at the moment. Based on Jonathan Haidt's moral foundation theory, this movie fits squarely in the tension between individual rights and group loyalty. The theme of "family" is constantly emphasized as characterizing the good guys. The bad guy (bad girl in this episode) belittled the family idea talking about it as some neural delusion that she had advanced beyond in her intellectual superiority. She got her butt kicked in the end, but she escaped perhaps for a future episode.
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I saw Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/gua..._galaxy_vol_2/
This is very similar to the Fast and the Furious movies except for the technology. In both, family is the critical idea and there are people with advanced "scientific" perspectives who are intent on harming that family. Those superior bad guys get their butts kicked. The main characters are very skilled but they are social outcasts who nonetheless save the world or galaxy and then go back to their simpler lives.
Score: 10/10
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I saw the first Guardians of the Galaxy last night. It shows how the guardians got started. Again family is the crucial theme throughout the movie. Score: 10/10
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I didn´t see these Guardia movies but the plot sounds familiar to me
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I normally don't watch science fiction, but the library had them on display and there was no good comedy on the shelves. I tried them because Rotten Tomatoes gave them a high rating.
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Just viewed a wonderful movie on TV made in Israel "Restoration" it had me spellbound and is still with me, Sasson Gabai played the lead father character who has discovered that an old Steinway in his furniture restoring shop if restored will sell and save him from losing the business and in the process could lose him his loving son. A great twist at the end.Great casting, a wonderful story.
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My last movie was actually from 2007 "Les chansons d´amour" I think it was pretty good 9/10
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I'll look for Les chansons d'amour and Restoration in the library today.
